Helix Talk

[spawnofthesith]

Could always just be a “doesn’t work in my hands” scenario


I know OG 5150s are amazing amps and some of my favorite tones that I’ve -heard- have come out of those amps, but I’ve had a couple and none of them have ever worked out for me

 

[JiveTurkey]

How are you monitoring them as you're dialing them in? That and and an IR you know you like will go a long way.

 

[spawnofthesith]

How are you monitoring them as you're dialing them in? That and and an IR you know you like will go a long way.

Going into my IEMs. If I’m able to pull something off I would also have the practice room PA providing some in room volume as well (despite the fact that we practice with IEMs, I Need some chest vibrations when playing with the band lol)


And like I said tried my favored IRs and maybe a slight improvement but still not dialing anything in I could live with

 

[JiveTurkey]

Going into my IEMs. If I’m able to pull something off I would also have the practice room PA providing some in room volume as well (despite the fact that we practice with IEMs, I Need some chest vibrations when playing with the band lol)


And like I said tried my favored IRs and maybe a slight improvement but still not dialing anything in I could live with

Yeah I got nothing for IEMs. I don't want to be that close to my own guitar playing

 

[spawnofthesith]

Yeah I got nothing for IEMs. I don't want to be that close to my own guitar playing

I mean, they work well for me for a miced cab for sure, RL and IRs… ok for home but dislike for band use

But I’m not even in the same galaxy so for with the stomp

 

[Sascha Franck]

Could you record an amp tone that you like and provide the DI track as well?

 

[spawnofthesith]

Could you record an amp tone that you like and provide the DI track as well?

Yeah! Have the next few days off..

And just last week started playing around with the DI recording the stomp offers. Very nice feature to have on board, we’re having a go at self tracking guitar and bass for an upcoming EP after doing drums at a studio. Nice to have the ability to do that on my pedaboard without anything extra

I’m not totally in love with the amp/IR tones I’ve achieved, but Indefinitely find them passable so if I could get there on the stomp would be sweet

 

[EOengineer]

@spawnofthesith sorry if I missed it, but what type of high gain tone are you going for and what guitar are you using?

 

[Sleezy E]

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[spawnofthesith]

EDIT: wait a minute I thought this was the PRS thread and you ordered the CE what’s going on here

 

[spawnofthesith]

@spawnofthesith sorry if I missed it, but what type of high gain tone are you going for and what guitar are you using?

I’m a mark guy through and through but lover of all things high gain. Not struggling to nail a “tone in my head” struggling to get something mildly decent sounding period


As per Saschas request I did just throw together a dumb captor recording of my mark IV. I don’t even think it’s that great sounding in the slightest tbh (just another spot where I’m at with even real amps and IRs lol) but if I could get the stomp even sounding like that I could live with it

Uploading momentarily

Edit: guitar at the moment is my semihollow CE24

 

[spawnofthesith]

@Sascha Franck as requested, here is an amp + IR clip and a DI. Like I mentioned above, I am not in love even with this IR + real amp recording, but its definitely a lot better than anything I've been able to get from my Stomp so far. I hope this DI is ok, (trigger warning) Reaper wasn't showing any clipping but it seems ganked as fuck compared to what I'm used to from DIs so idk. Like I said, I'm a tube amp neanderthal and only took my first DI recording test like a week ago

Mark IV

DI

 

[spawnofthesith]

I do keep coming back to the rockerverb mod, as that sounds killer through a tube power section, but for an all direct sound, while it might edge out the competition, still just not working for me

I feel like maybe additional EQ blocks seems like the logical next step but don’t really know where to begin

 

[spawnofthesith]

Also feeling extra defeated because I’m surrounded by 6 killer amps that I can quickly and easily get jizz worthy tones out of and I’ve spent my entire evening fucking with something that’s only led to frustration

But I do want to make it at least kind of work l, if for nothing else a backup. Honest. Lol